Source: The Rights of Man
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Source: Rights of man: being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution, etc
Source: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
Source: Rights of Man
Source: Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles
Source: The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
Source: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine
“I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.”
Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
Source: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine
“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Source: The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty
“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
Source: The American Crisis
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”
“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
Source: THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including
Source: Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings
“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”
“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
Source: The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine
“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”
“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
Source: A Letter to Camille Jordan, of the Council of Five Hundred: Occasioned by His Report on the Priests, the Worship, and the Bells
Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”
“It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.”
Source: The age of reason
Source: Collected Writings
“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life
Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine
“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.”
Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including
“It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.”
Source: An examination of the passages in the New Testament quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, An essay on dreams. Also an appendix
Source: The Rights of Man